Situation at “Palesye” enterprise: “Workers are very aggressive”

• 13.02.2012, 14:07

The administration of Pinsk-based “Palesye” industrial and trade association admitted there had been a conflict.

“Our workers are very aggressive indeed. If they would come, they would not hold a strike in production units, they will block the road,” “Salidarnasts” was told at the reception office of the CEO.

Readers of charter97.org have informed that last week hundreds of “Palesye” sewing shop workers went on strike. “Palesye” (“Polesye”) is a Pinsk industrial and trade association. The main demand of sewers was to raise salaries.

“The matter is, in January workers had just 17 working days (it was an approved schedule), and naturally sewing machine operators’ salaries were small,” a reader of the website told. “We cannot say exactly how many workers went on strike, but about a hundred of them have written resignation notices, as they do not agree with starvation wages. And it was a flagship of the light industry once…”

In the reception office of “Palesye” CEO a “Salidarnasts” reporter received answers to his questions. Reports about strikes have been denied, but it was told that workers are often dissatisfied.

“We do not have a strike as such, we had some hard moments, but we encounter such moments two or three times a year,” an administrative assistant Alina Melinkovich told. “If workers are discontented with something, they have a right to express their discontent.”

As said by her, such problems are solved at the level of the plant’s director or CEO. A representative of the enterprise informed that the administration and workers have managed to find a way out of the recent conflict.

“People just had some misunderstanding, and maybe department heads behaved in a wrong way. Once they had been told everything they needed, they calmed down and continued work,” Alina Melnikovich says. She added: “We worked for an incomplete month. That is, there had not been any abnormal situation. No need to start a mutiny. Our workers are really very aggressive, you know. If they go out, they would not hold a strike inside production units, they will block roads. That’s what I would call a strike.”